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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Joliot-Curie Supercomputer from Atos Powers Research at GENCI
GENCI in France has inaugurated their new Joliot-Curie supercomputer. Based on the Atos BullSequana architecture, the system is rated at 9.4 petaflops of peak performance...
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Radio Free HPC Ponders Amdahl’s Law, GPUs, and the ASC19 Student Cluster Competition
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the results of the ASC19 Student Cluster Competition and HPC workshop in China. "For the first time, a non-mainland...
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AMD Verifies Vega20 GPU in Record Time on Azure
AMD engineers executed a physical verification pass of the Radeon Instinct Vega20 – its largest 7nm chip design – in ~10 hours on Microsoft Azure. The job usedAMD...
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Exascale for Everyone
The exascale hype has been gaining a lot of steam in the press lately, and for good reason. Ever since the petascale barrier was broken in 2008, technology users...
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Podcast: Achieving Low Latency with the SPDK Storage Performance Development Kit
In this Intel Chip Chat podcast, Dr. Felipe Franciosi from Nutanix and Nate Marushak from Intel describe how the open source reference library called SPDK (Storage...
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Apply Now for the Blue Waters Petascale Computing Hackathon
NCSA is now accepting team applications for the Blue Waters Petascale Computing Hackathon. The event will take place September 9-13, 2019 at NCSA. "The Hackathon...
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Podcast: Irene Qualters from LANL Shares Life Lessons on HPC and Diversity
In this Big Compute Podcast episode Gabriel Broner interviews Irene Qualters about her career and the evolution of HPC. "Some of the most profound advances that...
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Supercomputing Takes on the Opioid Crisis
In this special guest feature from the SC19 Blog, Dan Jacobson and Wayne Joubert from ORNL describes how the Summit supercomputer is helping untangle how genetic...
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Tachyum Boots Linux on Universal Processor Chip
Today Tachyum announced it has successfully deployed the Linux OS on its Prodigy Universal Processor architecture, a foundation for 64-core, ultra-low power, high...
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Microway Shipping Intel Cascade Lake Systems in Volume
Today Microway announced that the company is now shipping 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors in volume, including next-generation NumberSmasher clusters...
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Univa Navops Launch Speeds HPC Workload Migration to the Cloud
Today Univa announced its latest version of Navops Launch, version 1.1, which offers enterprise users the ability to migrate their HPC workloads and processes to...
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Epic HPC Road Trip Continues to NREL
In this special guest feature, Dan Olds from OrionX continues his Epic HPC Road Trip series with a stop at NREL in Golden, Colorado. "When it comes to energy efficient...
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Texas A&M to launch new HPE Center for Computer Architecture Research
Today the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station announced the creation of the new Hewlett Packard Enterprise Center for Computer Architecture Research. MadeTexas...
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On the Basis of Sex: HPC in the fight for gender equality
In this special guest feature, Dr. Rosemary Francis reflects on how a recent film about Ruth Bader Ginsberg has a gender equality lesson for us all in high performance...
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Excelero Integrates NVMesh and BeeGFS for Accelerated I/O
Today Excelero and ThinkParQ announced benchmark results from their combined technologies for HPC, AI, ML, and analytics. "With Excelero’s NVMesh, our customers...
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NVIDIA EGX Accelerates AI on TYAN Edge Server
Today TYAN announced that it is teaming with NVIDIA to integrate the NVIDIA EGX platform with its Thunder SX TN76-B7102 edge server, completing TYAN’s GPU server...
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Unleashing the Next Wave of HPC Breakthroughs with Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory and Intel Optane DC Solid State Drives
In the face of unrelenting data growth, rising numbers of high-performance computing (HPC) workloads are memory bound. Caught between the high cost and limitedUnleashing...
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New NVIDIA EGX Platform Brings Real-Time AI to the Edge
Today NVIDIA announced NVIDIA EGX, an accelerated computing platform that enables companies to perform low-latency AI at the edge. “The combination of high-performance...
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HPC Powers Evolution of Defects for Superconductors
Researchers are using supercomputers to introduce and assess the impact of different configurations of defects on the performance of a superconductor. "When people...
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